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The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

CHAPTER VIII
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of the families of the entire human race.
"Only we riotous livers have imagined that this way was bad, and have invented another.

And this other,--what is it?
It is this.

The young girls are seated, and the gentlemen walk up and down before them, as in a bazaar, and make their choice.

The maidens wait and think, but do not dare to say: 'Take me, young man, me and not her.

Look at these shoulders and the rest.' We males walk up and down, and estimate the merchandise, and then we discourse upon the rights of woman, upon the liberty that she acquires, I know not how, in the theatrical halls." "But what is to be done ?" said I to him.


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